Ask Nicholas Petreley About Linux Usage Statistics

Posted by Roblimo on Monday March 17, 2003 @06:30AM from the lies-damned-lies-and-statistics dept.

This Slashdot discusssion, about a story Nick wrote, is already going (and heated). I did a NewsForge interview with a SuSE rep who quotes an IDC study that says Linux desktop use will double by 2004. Sounds nice, but how reliable are all these statistics? Nick's been studying Linux use in depth lately, so let's ask him directly what all of these numbers mean, if anything, and how IDC, Evans Data, and other analysts get and massage them. We'll post Nick's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Re:Your Bias by The+Bungi · 2003-03-17 07:12 · Score: 0, Troll

And here I thought Slashdot was a place of discussion. So that's the way it is then? Post a valid question that "goes against the grain" and get modded down?
Wow. Yeah, let's all just sit there and pretend that Open Source is doing just fine and hear the "pundits" we like tell it "like it is" instead of discussing the topic. Discussion. An interesting word, isn't it?